RomanceRoutledge, 9 sep 2004 - 158 pagina's Often derided as an inferior form of literature, 'romance' as a literary mode or genre defies satisfactory definition, dividing critics, scholars and readers alike. This useful guidebook traces the myriad transformations of 'romance' from medieval courtly love to Mills and Boon, and claims that its elusive and complex nature serves as a touchstone for larger questions of literary and cultural theory, such as:
The case for 'romance' as a concept is presented clearly and imaginatively, arguing that its usefulness to contemporary critics can be maintained if it is regarded as a literary strategy rather than a fixed genre. In encouraging the reader to consider the fluidity of literature, Romance will be of equal value to all students of historical and comparative literatures and of modern literary forms. |
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... wandering paths of romance. At Routledge, John Drakakis and Liz Thompson kindly supported my protracted efforts. My research assistants, Brooke Stafford and Madera Allan, eased my unwieldy transition between libraries and pulled off ...
... wandering, and obscured identity, that, as Parker suggests, both pose a quest and complicate it. 1 find this the most useful notion of romance because it accounts for the greatest number ofinstances, allowing us to address the ...
... wandering from the teleological thrust of epic, characterized by circularity or stasis and by the seductions of eros and individual adventures. In order to understand this foundational opposition, this chapter first analyzes the romance ...
... wandering desire. The strategy that we see here in the Odyssey comes to be one ofthe primary features of romance: the dilation or postponement of the object of desire rather than its achievement. Odysseus himself is introduced as the ...
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Inhoudsopgave
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2 Medieval Romance | 37 |
3 Romance in the Renaissance | 66 |
4 PostRenaissance Transformations | 99 |
FURTHER READING | 131 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | 133 |
INDEX | 142 |